Romain Beauxis a écrit : > Le Tuesday 21 October 2008 13:10:28 Peter Clifton, vous avez écrit : >> Having no source-code for firmware is hardly that different to having a >> completely open-source driver which does un-told magic by poking >> un-documented registers in a complex chip. Think Intel graphics before >> they released documentation for (some of) their chips. > > Agreed, though it does not restrain us from asking for free firmware. > > If I recall well, one of the origin of the GNU fondation was the fact that > having free drivers alowed one to actually *fix* issues he may have with his > *own* hardware. Then, the very same reasoning can apply to binary firmware. > > So, yes this is a brand new issue, that comes from the new way of designing > hardware. But that doesn't mean we should give up and remain behind the line > that was drawn 20 (or so) years ago. We now should also ask for open source > firmware for the very same reason that this huge effort toward free drivers > was done. If we did it for drivers, there's no reason we can't suceed for > firmwares. >
And we should delay the release by 5 years until we have them... -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
